All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.